Larry Stuart has been a leader in the hospitality industry for many years and has started up, opened or operated over 60 restaurants, seven major hotels and one airline. He has worked with Walt Disney World, Southwest Airlines and Loews Hotels at Universal Studios, Orlando, and is now author of the book “The Spirit of Hospitality: How to Add the Missing Ingredients Your Business Needs.”
10 years ago, 2011 — Custer Community Health Services received a $2.7 million U.S. Department of Agriculture rural development loan to expand the hospital. A fall groundbreaking was planned ... Custer School District was challenged to cut expenses, including spending $150,000 on new furniture for the elementary school. Several board members wanted to know if the furniture being discarded could still be used ... Custer and Fall River counties were discussing having a shared 4-H advisor.
Jim Simons, PT, supervisor of Rehabilitation Services at Monument Health Custer Hospital, has spent a lot of time working in Custer. Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement — he’s been working at the Custer Hospital for over 30 years.
“I’ve seen a lot of changes,” he said with a smile. “Monument Health brought a lot of stability to the Custer Hospital, and that was a really good thing.”
Tuesday, April 20
11:41 a.m.: Alarms rang out at the Elk Mountain School. They proved to be false, caused by a power surge.
12:35 p.m.: A calf was reportedly stuck between two fence posts near Crazy Horse. The owner was contacted to free the little fella.
3:53 p.m.: A deputy helped the driver of a stalled semi near Lame Johnny Road. The driver did not “speaka de English” very well but did manage to get going again a short time later.
5:44 p.m.: An abandoned vehicle was reported on Weaver Drive. The owner was contacted to pick it up or face it being towed.
When the Custer Women’s Civic Club was organized in 1926, one of its primary goals was the formation of a library. By March 15, 1930, it opened the Custer Library in the Jury Room of the courthouse.
The library had many homes during its formative years, including a room in the bank, a small building which had been a barbershop and “the small white school building.” The library received funding from Roosevelt’s Work Progress Administration (WPA) from 1935-39. The WPA is the organization in charge of the Pack Horse Library Project mentioned in a previous article.
Tarin Hartman of Custer just sent her oldest son off to do mission work in Louisiana and the youngest of her six children turns 6 in a few days. In addition to homeschooling her kids, she has also been a business partner and entrepreneur with her husband, Tod, and runs her own photography business. As Mother’s Day 2021 approaches, she is right in the middle of what it means to be a mom and businesswoman in the 21st Century.
Pacer Corporation is expanding, and in doing so, is diversifying the products in can offer.
The expansion project, which began last spring, is producing a courser grade of feldspar, which Pacer had not historically done. That, says Ryan Fredsall, Pacer’s general manager, opens up the market into possibilities of providing the new product for manufacturers of insulation and tile, two of the biggest consumers of courser feldspar.
Parents in the Hermosa area now have a second daycare option for their children and the caregiver has “lots and lots of time with children” in her background. Cherish Plympton, a mother of four and a state foster parent for the past eight years, opened Kids Retreat Daycare Monday at her home at 24738 Retreat Drive just off Hwy. 36 east of Hermosa.
Plympton said her 21 years as a parent and years of taking care of foster children of different age ranges and disabilities has given her a vast amount of experience on which to draw.
10 years ago, 2011 — The Custer City Improvement Committee discussed what to do with the property when the old building the sheriff’s department was housed in was torn down and the office moved into the newly renovated courthouse ... Ruth Ziolkowski discussed with Chronicle reporter Jason Ferguson what it was like to be a mother to 10 children ... The Custer YMCA was considering relocating its entire operation into the old elementary school.
